Hi,

I have downloaded a huge list of rock artist names together with their
musical styles into an MS Excel 2003 worksheet. Each name has a hyperlink
attached to it, and clicking the hyperlink will open a web page with
detailed information about this artist. For database purposes, the hyperlink
is extremely useful for identifying the artist, as each hyperlink contains a
number that is unique for that artist. So getting the URL value of the
hyperlink and extracting this number from it will give me the means to
differentiate between artists with identical names rather than to confuse
them. It is easy to manually copy the hyperlinks one-by-one by
right-clicking the cel open the Edit Hyperlink window copy the
hyperlink-address close the Edit Hyperlink window paste into the cell.
This will fully display the URL value of the hyperlink. But this is not
practical for my situation, where I'd have to repeat this for about 50,000
times. Using the Excel Macro Recorder I have tried to create a macro that
will copy and paste the hyperlink into the cell to the right of the cell
with the original artist data, using the sequence of the manual procedure.
The macro fails, however, as the macro-recorder doesn't record the action of
copying the hyperlink-address during the opening of the Edit Hyperlink
window; so it will paste any content that happens to be on the Windows
Clipboard at the time of pasting.

I would very much appreciate any suggestions that would help me find a way
to solve this little problem.

Ron.